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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1908
Page
12
Market notes list cotton middling coffee Rio No 7 lager and granulated items with unclear context and several garbled terms. No clear figures or entities identified beyond commodity names.
New York reports a quiet coffee market with 4750 bags traded and a late uptick of about five points as demand scattered in the absence of offerings. Cotton trades remained volatile with a sharp midday decline followed by a recovery, while prices and futures moved on European and domestic shipping cues.
The market shows beans and peas receipts around 370 per car with mixed quotings for choice and common grades. Creamery products stay steady to firm with limited export outlets, while eggs stay weak on large supply and fruit prices move with varied regional supplies.
Prices remain firm on coast while inland struggle with weak demand and cautious buyers. Fruit and vegetable markets show variable offers with small lot sales and plentiful supplies, including prime fruit at grower price and modest Oregon lots. Poultry and hay markets soften as supply rises and buyers hold back.
Livestock receipts total 105 cars 1 774 head with calves at 6 50 to 4 50 per cwt and beef prices easing. Dressed beef slow at 2 1 2 to 3 0 per lb native sides and assortment of hogs lambs and sheep shown with fluctuating values and weak market tone.
May 28 telegraph market notes show varied cattle and hog prices. Receipts and values differ by region with steady to higher cattle, rising hogs in some districts, and mixed sheep and lamb bids. Top marks go to prime cattle and heavy hogs in several markets.
Liverpool market report shows gas firm ER with No 3 red Western winter at 7s 6d and No 1 California at 7s 9d. Futures quiet for July 7s 6d and September 7s 6 34d. Corn spot firm with new American kiln grain at 6m 1s 2d and old American mixed 5s 1 4d. Peas Canadian at 7s 6d. Flour winter patents steady at 2s 4d. Pacific Coast hops London price steady at £1 12s 10d.
TRKE WRITING of every description, orders eat for ané deliveres in city limitis. Smith & Mocrae, East West 14th st.
Furnished rooms to let at 8 University Place opposite Washington Square and at 2 East 20th Street near Quadison Square South. Elegant small rooms for gentlemen with references. Units described as suites with two rooms and a bathroom by month available.
Designs and estimates on application for store and office fixtures and bar fixtures to order and in stock. Located at 33 West 4th Street near Broadway, Bene wick Collender.
A listing invites investors to fund a recently patented machine with a working model and potential strong income. Address W., Box 82, Tribune.
Multiple bankbooks reported lost or missing at Union Dime Savings Institution and Bank for Savings in New York with instructions to present or cancel within ten days. Several job listings seek office staff, chauffeurs, clerks, and skilled tradesmen with various locations and qualifications across Brooklyn and The Bronx.
Domestic situations wanted attendants and nurses with medical skills advertise part time or full service. Butler or valet positions sought by Japanese worker with references. Listings for men and maids note rates and locations in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Swedish-American Domestic Exchange lists agency contact and telephone.
City notices show Hudson and Long Island Traction Company seeks consent to construct and operate a street surface railway across Manhattan and Queens, including the Blackwell Island Bridge. The petition, filed April 1908 and discussed May 1 1908, requests public notice and a hearing as required by law.
Classified notices list multiple coachman and gardener positions with details on marital status, locations in New York, and requirements. Also appears a public notice from Nassau Electric Railroad Company seeking franchise rights for street rail extensions in Brooklyn and Manhattan with a scheduled public hearing.
A dense classifieds page lists chambermaids and waitresses, cooks, caretakers, gardeners, coachmen, and house workers. Employers seek Protestant or English-speaking women, many with strong references, in private families or hotels, around Manhattan addresses such as West 23rd Street, Columbus Avenue, and Lexington Avenue, with wages ranging up to 80 dollars.
Public notice states the City of New York intends to apply to the Supreme Court of New York for appointment of three disinterested Commissioners of Appraisal under Chapter 724 of the Laws of 1905, to acquire real estate in Mount Pleasant Westchester for the Kenster Reservoir project. The hearing is set for June 2, 1908, at ten o clock in the forenoon at the Court House in White Plains. The description covers parcels in Mount Pleasant bounded by Pleasant Place Commercial Avenue Adaline Avenue and surrounding streets, filed map No. 1792. The compensation and duties of the commissioners are described, with reference to map filings and court processes.
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